I wrote last week about the importance of checklists for all aspects of your business. Expanding on that I learned a valuable lesson at the weekend in the most unlikely of places, in a hospital. Our youngest son has had some medical challenges which started before he was born, he was given a 1 in [...]
When I first started in I.T I was young and able to absorb everything I read and memorised it all. Then as the years passed by I learned more about processes for performing regular tasks in my work and they became my own. So much so that they were engrained within who I was and [...]
I went out today to visit a client who was having problems with ESET Anti Virus. It transpired that despite paying for the software from their previous supplier and it being licensed until September 09 it was having a problem with the username & password for downloading updates. They did not have a copy of [...]
Over the years I have seen a great many IT engineers come and go, after all 16 years is a long time in the trade. During that time I have also taught a number of engineers the best ways to do the job, many of which had no formal qualifications such as MCP, MCSE etc. [...]
Following on from my recent post about Strategic Marketing Masterclasses, the same company is now running Strategic Web Masterclasses. So what is a “Strategic Web Masterclass”? In simple terms it will help a business owner or the person tasked with looking after the website to be able to an action plan that is tailored to [...]
02 Apr
Posted by robfranklin as Business, small business
I try not to do any shameless “whoring” but sometimes it just has to be done for the greater good. There are a great deal of small business out there trying a great deal of marketing tactics without success because it lacks structure. Unless you have a natural flare or have had training it can [...]
07 Mar
Posted by admin as Business, IT Support, life, Personal Develoment, small business
When I was a kid growing up I used to get all sorts of aches and pains, when I asked what they were more often I was told these were ‘growing pains’. With the sharp departure of my teenage years meant I saw the last of these ‘growing pains’ but I didn’t realise that they [...]
Things have been a little quiet on the blog recently. This was mainly down to a project that was being planned for a client. The project consisted of a transition from a Windows 2000 Active Directory running Exchange 2000 over to a new Exchange 2007 server running on Windows 2008 server and to make things [...]
04 Feb
Posted by admin as Business, insane stuff, life, Light relief, small business
This week has been an interesting week for UK business. We have discovered, surprise surprise, that as a country we are totally unable to cope with any kind of weather outside of the standard drizzle of rain or a sparkle of sunshine. As a Brit I am truly embarrassed to call myself a UK citizen [...]
This was the scene in Nottingham today. Not too bad considering how bad the weather gets in other countries but as true Brits we were totally ill-equipped to cope with the snow. Still it was fun and apparently there’s more snow on the way, lets hope so then the media can blame the recession on [...]